Based on the research focuses in communication of ShanghaiTech University, Prof. Ding first briefly introduced the school background and research directions of SIST professors. Prof. Ding emphasized that support from companies is essential for the development of SIST, while innovation of companies also requires novel research results. He pointed out that the school and companies together are facing the challenge to fill in the gap between industry and academic research. Porf. Yang Yang and other professors gave talks about researches related to VIA Technologies.

On the afternoon, the senior manager and the director of embedded system of VIA Technologies gave talks. Attendees of the workshop had deep communications about the prospects of the Android market in embedded systems, and bottlenecks met in technical developing.